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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334
- . . MIX. A . LOVHV ST.
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
ST. ?- 1- 4- 74 ,, . ,
,. --
.
S rgr Life and living fuvJl ., jL7 jiJL A sensitive story about a friend- - Xn) MrvWuW) P broken by death tells more
Wf MflUjIli ( about life and living than about I
BSSsfri III eaUl and dying " ty' 8 I
S v-- Story on Page 9A
70th Year -- No. 239 ( ioml Morning It's Sunhiy. June 23. 97 6 Sections - 66 Pages - 35 Cents I
-- Protests 1 Hostile crowd forces
Nazis to abandon rally
CHICAGO ( UPI) - A small band of
uniformed ' Nazis showed up - in
Chicago's Loop Saturday night, but
hurriedly retreated in the face of a
barrage of eggs, sticks, firecrackers
and beer cans. thrown. by several
thousand howling protesters.
" Death, death, death to the Nazis,"
the protesters shouted as Nazi leader
Frank Collin arrived at' the federal
building almost an hour and a half
late with about a dozen followers.
Hundreds of city and federal of-ficers
were on hand as the Nazis were .
jeered by a crowd of thousands in-censed
by Collin's earlier plans to
march today in the heavily Jewish
suburb of Skokie.
Thousands of protesters who had
planned to battle Collin in Skokie
came to Chicago to confront the Nazis
when Collin settled on a Saturday
Loop rally and another on Chicago's
Southwest Side July 9.
The Nazis carried shields and
sticks. The waiting protesters surged
against police lines, some carrying
flags bearing the Star of David.
Related stories on Page SA
" No more Nazis! They. have no
rights!" some shouted. A woman who
yelled " Kill the Nazis!" was dragged
Several arrests were reported.
Collin, a short, stocky man, ap-peared
to attempt to speak to the
crowd, but was hooted down.
Then, less than IS minutes after
they had emerged from the federal
building behind a police guard, the
Nazis withdrew and were reported
leaving the area.
Eggs, firecrackers, golf balls, soft
drink cans, sticks and even ice cubes
were among the missiles thrown at
Collin and his crew.
After about seven minutes, police
- picked up their barricades and pushed
the crowd back as the Nazis made
their retreat.
Most of the counterdemonstrators
were believed to be members or
sympathizers of the militant Jewish
Defense League.
Collin canceled the Skokie
demonstration Thursday after a
federal judge authorized his Nazis to
hold their rally in Marquette Park.
-- In town today--
7: 88 p. m. " Cowboys No. 2,"
University Theater, Gentry Hall
basement.
Monday
7 pjn. Columbia City Council " --
. meets, fourth floor, County- Cit- y
Building.
8: 15 p. m. Family Fun Fare
Pops Concert, Jesse Auditorium,
University.
Movie listings on Page M, 11A
. , ... . - . '. -- ..
f f . LWBHH Camera ( dickers
Il'--
f
I I fBBgsjbHMSBHB With today's inexpensive
If f. ' HBHHHBHHHH photographic equipment, IJBHHKmPMMHR:; more and more people are H30HB& M9GflHHH flocking to this trigger- happ- y pPMBHnHrHwHIB hobby. Camera clickers SUnUSy& frmL HH mwadays are everywhere: in SHBQIKs& wIWhH parks, at tourist attractions, llHNKiflHFT':' lHMH at birthday parties and K8WMffr. MEiBWKHMJ even on Page 6B of today's
tMKSSHCfcHHHffimflHH Missourian.
G6 A strange proposition
w( B& ' CftHfe Jun Smiley was the curiousest man about IBy VMhfl always betting on anything that turned up,
Vf tiMfl includin8 frog3 O" Pa8e 12A today, you
BI VtES can rea aD0Ut what happens to Smiley
PlV JJ- ra- Hr and " th Celebrated Jumping Frog of Jjrb, J , & MM Calaveas County." It's the first of five
HgfcSilrfVgaHl favorite stories by Mark Twain, published
XK- 3r- N Sundays in the Missourian.
Nuclear opponents
camp on reactor site
SEABROOK, N. H. ( UPI) - About
800 anti- nucle- ar demonstrators trying
to halt construction of the $ 2.3 billion,
2,300- megaw- att Seabrook atomic
power plant marched peacefully onto
the plant site Saturday for a three- da- y
camp- i- n, rally and energy fair.
Protesters and New Hampshire
officials said they expected the
demonstration to be legal and
peaceful and end on schedule Mon-day,
unlike a site occupation last year
which led to 1,414 arrests on criminal
trespass charges.
A spokesman for the Clamshell
Alliance, which organized the
demonstration, estimated by 3 p. m.
CST as many as 6,000 people were on
the 18- ac- re ( 7.2- hectar- e) site loaned to
them by the plant builders - the
PublicService Co. of New Hampshire.
If that figure is right, spokesman
Cathy Wolff said, " it would make it
the largest anti- nucle- ar safe energy
alternatives demonstration since the
movement started."
Gov. Meldrim Thomson said an
hour later he had just flown over the
site in a helicopter with police, and
" the crowd there is somewhat under
2,500."
He said police and 70 National
Guardsmen were nearby but out of
sight on the 715- ac- re ( 289- hectar- e)
plot where the twin- tow- er nuclear
reactor is being built.
Thomson said police and guard-smen
were " much better organized
than a year ago but you don't see
them."
Besides demonstrators from dozens
of states, there was a delegation of
about 20 people from the Japanese
Congress Against the Atomic Bomb.
The Clamshell Alliance signed an
agreement to keep the demonstration
legal in hopes of attracting supporters
scared off by the threat of arrest.
Attorney General Thomas Rath,
who negotiated the agreement for a
legal demonstration, said 100 to 200
police would be on hand, and " a good
deal more" would be out of sight but
available if needed.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, who was to
share the platform today with en-tertainers
Dick Gregory and Pete
Seeger, was present for the march
into the demonstration area.
StephuSavola
City Personnel Director Nick Smeed meets with union members to discuss a dispute with the city
' Nice guy' Smeed a hard bargainer
By Brynell Somervflle
Missourian staff writer
If you asked a city employee what he
thought of Nicholas Smeed as a person,
he probably would tell you Smeed is a
nice guy.
But don't expect an easy answer to
how two union leaders rate Smeed as
Columbia's personnel director.
" I wouldn't come here if this was a
sedate position where I'd sit back and .
retire the next 70 years," says Smeed,
who relishes constant challenges on and
off the job.
Since taking office in September 1974,
Smeed sometimes has sparked con-troversy
with such proposals as the fat--
trimming ( physical, not budgetary)
requirements for fire and police em-ployees.
Although Robert Stanley, president of
Insight
Firefighters Local 1055, says he would
not mind playing the guitar with Smeed
off the job, they do not harmonize well
on the job.
" Now take this fat- trimmi- ng
proposal. If what Smeed's saying is
such a good idea, they should put it into
the hiring procedure without in-timidating
the people who've already
been here," Stanley says with a shrug.
But the trim, youthful- lookin- g ad-ministrator
practices what he
preaches. He can run a mile ( 1.6
kilometers) in five minutes and do five
miles ( 8 kilometers) in less than 35
minutes. He has won several trophies in
tennis tournaments.
It is all " kind of fun," Smeed says. He
even enjoys the grueling kind of
workout where one lies down and
pushes weights up from the chest. " I
can bench press 300 pounds ( 136
kilograms)," he adds casually.
Each year he goes to Colorado for
mountain and rock- climbi- ng treks.
Smeed's office is decorated with his
photographs of pastoral scenes he has
encountered on camping trips.
His work experience is as varied as
his leisure life. Along the way he has
been a professional solo musician, an
auto worker, a junior high school math
teacher and a social worker in Detroit's
inner city. There he operated out of a
settlement house counseling Polish and
black youths, attempting to ease racial
tensions.
" My background of dealing in-dividually
with people has been a great
help in my present job."
. On the administrative side, Smeed
took several management courses
leading to a 1968 BS. degree in
. sociology from Detroit's Wayne State
( See SMEED, Page 12A)
Council may hike
city's light hills
By Clinton Bailer
Missourian staff writer
Columbia's electric utility customers
soon will be harder hit by the wake of
the winter coal strike if the City Council
passes an ordinance Monday to pay for
the cost of natural gas used during the
strike.
Extra charges, in the form of fuel
adjustment allowances, will appear on
customers' bills from July to October if
the ordinance passes. The charges will
be based on the amount of electricity
each customer used during the strike in
February and March. The amount to be
made up each month is $ 79,030.
Revisions to the city's subdivision
ordinance also will come to a vote
Monday. Most of the revisions, drawn
up by the city planning department,
have gained approval from local
planners and developers. But a con-troversial
change in the definition of the
term " subdivision" has held up ap-proval
of the ordinance. The term is
used now to stand for the division of
land for development. Under the
proposal, any division of land for sale
would be referred to as a subdivision.
The council also is to vote Monday on
appropriations for several community
service projects. The University is
slated to receive $ 4,800 for a social- servi- ce
referral agency in Columbia;
Community Playground of Columbia
Inc., $ 3,000 for a summer day care
program; the University YMCA, $ 1,750
for a recreation day camp; Planned
Parenthood, $ 1,500, for community
planning and counseling assistance.
In other business, the council is
scheduled to:
Hear a presentation of the 1978- 198- 3
Capital Improvements Program by the
Columbia Planning and Zoning Com-mission.
In its letter to the council, the
commission recommends that " em-phasis
be placed on improving existent
street and utility systems rather than
undertaking excessive new con-struction
programs."
The commission also encourages the
city to develop a comprehensive
redevelopment program for the Flat
Branch area " in the belief that a strong
public commitment is needed to help
ensure the economic viability of the
downtown area," and recommends that
development of city parks should take
precedence over park acquisition.
v Give first reading to an ordinance
authorizing a contract to begin the
burial of utility lines along West
Broadway.
v Consider a resolution in support of
Amendment Three to the Missouri
Constitution. The amendment would
enable Missouri's municipal utilities to
cooperate in " power pooling" with the
result of substantial reductions in
power generation costs.
Appoint Public Works Director
Ray Beck interim city manager.
Insults ' pay9 parking tickets
By Clinton Bailer
Missourian staff writer
The city recently has received some
unusual items in its traffic ticket drop
boxes. Along with the daily batch of
parking tickets has come a small
number of rude and often obscene
comments directed at no one in par-ticular,
says Municipal Court Judge
FredDannov.
Even samples of " animal ex-crement"
have been opened by un-suspecting
clerks, Dannov says. " It's
insulting," he says.
Who's doing it? " People who get their
kicks out of shocking people," says the
judge.
Dannov earlier this month asked City
Counselor Rhonda Thomas to draw up
an ordinance that would discourage
such pranks.
So when the City Council meets
Monday night, a city code amendment
making the alteration of traffic tickets
a misdemeanor will be presented for
first reading. The penalty for including
surprises with one's traffic tickets
would be a maximum fine of $ 500 2
andor three months in jail. J
School accounting system adds up profits Jj
ByJohnCawson
Mtasomian staff writer
In transferring to a computerized
accounting- - system,---' th- e Columbia
. School District took time and money to
',-- save even- mor- e time.' And the district
' may recover, part of its initial in-vestment
in the process.
'" Henry " Hank" Fisher, secretary of
the' Columbia School Board and
assistant Jhaxrtatendent, estimates the
conversion cost about $ 5,000 and much
.. time . in., " cross- walking?- .,
,- -
simultaneously running both systems
while changing over. But at its last
meeting the board authorized selling its
modifications of the new system to
other Missouri school districts.
The Public Budgeting Accounting
Package was one of five modified
computer applications the board
authorized for sale. The other modified
applications are a student attendance
. package, student scheduling system,
payroll' and inventory control
systems.
. v. All are -- modifications of the . IBM.
computer package systems which the
district purchased. The modifications
were made by John McMinn, the
district's coordinator of data
processing. . The accounting package
costthedistrict$ 4,000.
Fisher says the State Department of
Education encouraged the Columbia
schools to sell the modifications to other
state school districts. He says that
three or four school districts have
inquired about the modified accounting
system, but expects " a number" of
other; districts to contact them as more
change over to the new system.
Fisher says the board will determine
a " fair and reasonable" -- price for the ..
modifications after considering' the
time and cost invested in the program.
The conversion from the old to the
new, which. should be completed by --
Saturday, began at the start ofthe 1978
fiscal year. At that time, the State
Department of Education asked 70
additional school districts to volun- - .
tarihconvert tothe system as part of a
pilot program. Five Missouri school
districts already. had begunthe tran-- .,
sition during the 1976- 7- 7 school year. CS Columbia Schools SuperintencierM
Russell Thompson said the conversioffififfiL:
was more difficult thananjdewtia;'
" It's a little, more VrHcajittij
we originauy thought Wefte struggUSi
with it no in tte transitioiudlstallll:
Thompson said. " We thougW'wehaal:;
' better handle on ft." .-
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- Fisher said' that -- Jtel'nSBHp'
. required theiheh;. of ( spedal? eop- sultant- s andlurHefoEfe

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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334
- . . MIX. A . LOVHV ST.
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
ST. ?- 1- 4- 74 ,, . ,
,. --
.
S rgr Life and living fuvJl ., jL7 jiJL A sensitive story about a friend- - Xn) MrvWuW) P broken by death tells more
Wf MflUjIli ( about life and living than about I
BSSsfri III eaUl and dying " ty' 8 I
S v-- Story on Page 9A
70th Year -- No. 239 ( ioml Morning It's Sunhiy. June 23. 97 6 Sections - 66 Pages - 35 Cents I
-- Protests 1 Hostile crowd forces
Nazis to abandon rally
CHICAGO ( UPI) - A small band of
uniformed ' Nazis showed up - in
Chicago's Loop Saturday night, but
hurriedly retreated in the face of a
barrage of eggs, sticks, firecrackers
and beer cans. thrown. by several
thousand howling protesters.
" Death, death, death to the Nazis,"
the protesters shouted as Nazi leader
Frank Collin arrived at' the federal
building almost an hour and a half
late with about a dozen followers.
Hundreds of city and federal of-ficers
were on hand as the Nazis were .
jeered by a crowd of thousands in-censed
by Collin's earlier plans to
march today in the heavily Jewish
suburb of Skokie.
Thousands of protesters who had
planned to battle Collin in Skokie
came to Chicago to confront the Nazis
when Collin settled on a Saturday
Loop rally and another on Chicago's
Southwest Side July 9.
The Nazis carried shields and
sticks. The waiting protesters surged
against police lines, some carrying
flags bearing the Star of David.
Related stories on Page SA
" No more Nazis! They. have no
rights!" some shouted. A woman who
yelled " Kill the Nazis!" was dragged
Several arrests were reported.
Collin, a short, stocky man, ap-peared
to attempt to speak to the
crowd, but was hooted down.
Then, less than IS minutes after
they had emerged from the federal
building behind a police guard, the
Nazis withdrew and were reported
leaving the area.
Eggs, firecrackers, golf balls, soft
drink cans, sticks and even ice cubes
were among the missiles thrown at
Collin and his crew.
After about seven minutes, police
- picked up their barricades and pushed
the crowd back as the Nazis made
their retreat.
Most of the counterdemonstrators
were believed to be members or
sympathizers of the militant Jewish
Defense League.
Collin canceled the Skokie
demonstration Thursday after a
federal judge authorized his Nazis to
hold their rally in Marquette Park.
-- In town today--
7: 88 p. m. " Cowboys No. 2,"
University Theater, Gentry Hall
basement.
Monday
7 pjn. Columbia City Council " --
. meets, fourth floor, County- Cit- y
Building.
8: 15 p. m. Family Fun Fare
Pops Concert, Jesse Auditorium,
University.
Movie listings on Page M, 11A
. , ... . - . '. -- ..
f f . LWBHH Camera ( dickers
Il'--
f
I I fBBgsjbHMSBHB With today's inexpensive
If f. ' HBHHHBHHHH photographic equipment, IJBHHKmPMMHR:; more and more people are H30HB& M9GflHHH flocking to this trigger- happ- y pPMBHnHrHwHIB hobby. Camera clickers SUnUSy& frmL HH mwadays are everywhere: in SHBQIKs& wIWhH parks, at tourist attractions, llHNKiflHFT':' lHMH at birthday parties and K8WMffr. MEiBWKHMJ even on Page 6B of today's
tMKSSHCfcHHHffimflHH Missourian.
G6 A strange proposition
w( B& ' CftHfe Jun Smiley was the curiousest man about IBy VMhfl always betting on anything that turned up,
Vf tiMfl includin8 frog3 O" Pa8e 12A today, you
BI VtES can rea aD0Ut what happens to Smiley
PlV JJ- ra- Hr and " th Celebrated Jumping Frog of Jjrb, J , & MM Calaveas County." It's the first of five
HgfcSilrfVgaHl favorite stories by Mark Twain, published
XK- 3r- N Sundays in the Missourian.
Nuclear opponents
camp on reactor site
SEABROOK, N. H. ( UPI) - About
800 anti- nucle- ar demonstrators trying
to halt construction of the $ 2.3 billion,
2,300- megaw- att Seabrook atomic
power plant marched peacefully onto
the plant site Saturday for a three- da- y
camp- i- n, rally and energy fair.
Protesters and New Hampshire
officials said they expected the
demonstration to be legal and
peaceful and end on schedule Mon-day,
unlike a site occupation last year
which led to 1,414 arrests on criminal
trespass charges.
A spokesman for the Clamshell
Alliance, which organized the
demonstration, estimated by 3 p. m.
CST as many as 6,000 people were on
the 18- ac- re ( 7.2- hectar- e) site loaned to
them by the plant builders - the
PublicService Co. of New Hampshire.
If that figure is right, spokesman
Cathy Wolff said, " it would make it
the largest anti- nucle- ar safe energy
alternatives demonstration since the
movement started."
Gov. Meldrim Thomson said an
hour later he had just flown over the
site in a helicopter with police, and
" the crowd there is somewhat under
2,500."
He said police and 70 National
Guardsmen were nearby but out of
sight on the 715- ac- re ( 289- hectar- e)
plot where the twin- tow- er nuclear
reactor is being built.
Thomson said police and guard-smen
were " much better organized
than a year ago but you don't see
them."
Besides demonstrators from dozens
of states, there was a delegation of
about 20 people from the Japanese
Congress Against the Atomic Bomb.
The Clamshell Alliance signed an
agreement to keep the demonstration
legal in hopes of attracting supporters
scared off by the threat of arrest.
Attorney General Thomas Rath,
who negotiated the agreement for a
legal demonstration, said 100 to 200
police would be on hand, and " a good
deal more" would be out of sight but
available if needed.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, who was to
share the platform today with en-tertainers
Dick Gregory and Pete
Seeger, was present for the march
into the demonstration area.
StephuSavola
City Personnel Director Nick Smeed meets with union members to discuss a dispute with the city
' Nice guy' Smeed a hard bargainer
By Brynell Somervflle
Missourian staff writer
If you asked a city employee what he
thought of Nicholas Smeed as a person,
he probably would tell you Smeed is a
nice guy.
But don't expect an easy answer to
how two union leaders rate Smeed as
Columbia's personnel director.
" I wouldn't come here if this was a
sedate position where I'd sit back and .
retire the next 70 years," says Smeed,
who relishes constant challenges on and
off the job.
Since taking office in September 1974,
Smeed sometimes has sparked con-troversy
with such proposals as the fat--
trimming ( physical, not budgetary)
requirements for fire and police em-ployees.
Although Robert Stanley, president of
Insight
Firefighters Local 1055, says he would
not mind playing the guitar with Smeed
off the job, they do not harmonize well
on the job.
" Now take this fat- trimmi- ng
proposal. If what Smeed's saying is
such a good idea, they should put it into
the hiring procedure without in-timidating
the people who've already
been here," Stanley says with a shrug.
But the trim, youthful- lookin- g ad-ministrator
practices what he
preaches. He can run a mile ( 1.6
kilometers) in five minutes and do five
miles ( 8 kilometers) in less than 35
minutes. He has won several trophies in
tennis tournaments.
It is all " kind of fun," Smeed says. He
even enjoys the grueling kind of
workout where one lies down and
pushes weights up from the chest. " I
can bench press 300 pounds ( 136
kilograms)," he adds casually.
Each year he goes to Colorado for
mountain and rock- climbi- ng treks.
Smeed's office is decorated with his
photographs of pastoral scenes he has
encountered on camping trips.
His work experience is as varied as
his leisure life. Along the way he has
been a professional solo musician, an
auto worker, a junior high school math
teacher and a social worker in Detroit's
inner city. There he operated out of a
settlement house counseling Polish and
black youths, attempting to ease racial
tensions.
" My background of dealing in-dividually
with people has been a great
help in my present job."
. On the administrative side, Smeed
took several management courses
leading to a 1968 BS. degree in
. sociology from Detroit's Wayne State
( See SMEED, Page 12A)
Council may hike
city's light hills
By Clinton Bailer
Missourian staff writer
Columbia's electric utility customers
soon will be harder hit by the wake of
the winter coal strike if the City Council
passes an ordinance Monday to pay for
the cost of natural gas used during the
strike.
Extra charges, in the form of fuel
adjustment allowances, will appear on
customers' bills from July to October if
the ordinance passes. The charges will
be based on the amount of electricity
each customer used during the strike in
February and March. The amount to be
made up each month is $ 79,030.
Revisions to the city's subdivision
ordinance also will come to a vote
Monday. Most of the revisions, drawn
up by the city planning department,
have gained approval from local
planners and developers. But a con-troversial
change in the definition of the
term " subdivision" has held up ap-proval
of the ordinance. The term is
used now to stand for the division of
land for development. Under the
proposal, any division of land for sale
would be referred to as a subdivision.
The council also is to vote Monday on
appropriations for several community
service projects. The University is
slated to receive $ 4,800 for a social- servi- ce
referral agency in Columbia;
Community Playground of Columbia
Inc., $ 3,000 for a summer day care
program; the University YMCA, $ 1,750
for a recreation day camp; Planned
Parenthood, $ 1,500, for community
planning and counseling assistance.
In other business, the council is
scheduled to:
Hear a presentation of the 1978- 198- 3
Capital Improvements Program by the
Columbia Planning and Zoning Com-mission.
In its letter to the council, the
commission recommends that " em-phasis
be placed on improving existent
street and utility systems rather than
undertaking excessive new con-struction
programs."
The commission also encourages the
city to develop a comprehensive
redevelopment program for the Flat
Branch area " in the belief that a strong
public commitment is needed to help
ensure the economic viability of the
downtown area," and recommends that
development of city parks should take
precedence over park acquisition.
v Give first reading to an ordinance
authorizing a contract to begin the
burial of utility lines along West
Broadway.
v Consider a resolution in support of
Amendment Three to the Missouri
Constitution. The amendment would
enable Missouri's municipal utilities to
cooperate in " power pooling" with the
result of substantial reductions in
power generation costs.
Appoint Public Works Director
Ray Beck interim city manager.
Insults ' pay9 parking tickets
By Clinton Bailer
Missourian staff writer
The city recently has received some
unusual items in its traffic ticket drop
boxes. Along with the daily batch of
parking tickets has come a small
number of rude and often obscene
comments directed at no one in par-ticular,
says Municipal Court Judge
FredDannov.
Even samples of " animal ex-crement"
have been opened by un-suspecting
clerks, Dannov says. " It's
insulting," he says.
Who's doing it? " People who get their
kicks out of shocking people," says the
judge.
Dannov earlier this month asked City
Counselor Rhonda Thomas to draw up
an ordinance that would discourage
such pranks.
So when the City Council meets
Monday night, a city code amendment
making the alteration of traffic tickets
a misdemeanor will be presented for
first reading. The penalty for including
surprises with one's traffic tickets
would be a maximum fine of $ 500 2
andor three months in jail. J
School accounting system adds up profits Jj
ByJohnCawson
Mtasomian staff writer
In transferring to a computerized
accounting- - system,---' th- e Columbia
. School District took time and money to
',-- save even- mor- e time.' And the district
' may recover, part of its initial in-vestment
in the process.
'" Henry " Hank" Fisher, secretary of
the' Columbia School Board and
assistant Jhaxrtatendent, estimates the
conversion cost about $ 5,000 and much
.. time . in., " cross- walking?- .,
,- -
simultaneously running both systems
while changing over. But at its last
meeting the board authorized selling its
modifications of the new system to
other Missouri school districts.
The Public Budgeting Accounting
Package was one of five modified
computer applications the board
authorized for sale. The other modified
applications are a student attendance
. package, student scheduling system,
payroll' and inventory control
systems.
. v. All are -- modifications of the . IBM.
computer package systems which the
district purchased. The modifications
were made by John McMinn, the
district's coordinator of data
processing. . The accounting package
costthedistrict$ 4,000.
Fisher says the State Department of
Education encouraged the Columbia
schools to sell the modifications to other
state school districts. He says that
three or four school districts have
inquired about the modified accounting
system, but expects " a number" of
other; districts to contact them as more
change over to the new system.
Fisher says the board will determine
a " fair and reasonable" -- price for the ..
modifications after considering' the
time and cost invested in the program.
The conversion from the old to the
new, which. should be completed by --
Saturday, began at the start ofthe 1978
fiscal year. At that time, the State
Department of Education asked 70
additional school districts to volun- - .
tarihconvert tothe system as part of a
pilot program. Five Missouri school
districts already. had begunthe tran-- .,
sition during the 1976- 7- 7 school year. CS Columbia Schools SuperintencierM
Russell Thompson said the conversioffififfiL:
was more difficult thananjdewtia;'
" It's a little, more VrHcajittij
we originauy thought Wefte struggUSi
with it no in tte transitioiudlstallll:
Thompson said. " We thougW'wehaal:;
' better handle on ft." .-
- - JA- n-' JwfcS .' ( BgnKj'''
- Fisher said' that -- Jtel'nSBHp'
. required theiheh;. of ( spedal? eop- sultant- s andlurHefoEfe